the cities of jay in pre-islamic and yahudiya in the post islamic period were located in a plain delimited from three sides by surrounding heights. this area, referred to in historical and geographical documents as the rostāq-i jay, was the most important rural district of isfahan's khora. with rising of buyids, they decided to change the seat of power from jay to yahudiya and consequently...

Jay Katz has been one of the most profound and enduring influences on my life as a legal scholar. His influence began at the very moment I entered the Yale Law School as a student in 1962. My understanding of the uses of psychoanalysis in legal analysis begins with the memory of my first encounter with him. I believe that my personal experience mirrors more generally how Jay came to influence a...

" Flying safely has not developed using experimental and control groups of air passengers and counting victims. " —Ülo Kristjuhan 75 R ECENTLY, I TOOK PART in a radio interview together with the demographer Jay Olshansky. Jay and I have been friends for over a decade, and we have done this before: indeed , he and I have for most of that period been among the most frequently appearing academic g...

INTRODUCTION The Santa Cruz Island Scrub Jay , Aphelocoma coerulescens insularis. is a genetically isolated populat ion limited in its geographic distribution to Santa Cruz Island, Santa Barbara County , Cal ifornia . This insular form is characterized by rather pronounced morphological different iat ion f rom mainland populat ions of the same species; its uniqueness was quickly recognized by e...

In this paper, I analyse the interaction between the holm-oak Quercus ilex, and one of its main dispersers, the European jay Garrulus glandarius, in an heterogeneous Mediterranean landscape. I quantify the spatial dispersal pattern of the seed shadow at two spatial scales, landscape (among patches) and microhabitat (within patches), by directly tracking the movement of seeds. Two main traits of...

It is seldom possible to plausibly define and observe a pool of potential entrants to a market. This study overcomes that limitation by taking advantage of an opportunity to reasonably define the potential entrants into MTBE production, a rapidly growing environmental product from the mid-1980’s to mid-1990’s. Potential entrants are identified as those firms having access to specific assets tha...

Red-backed shrikes (Lanius collurio) behave quite differently towards two common nest predators. While the European jay (Garrulus glandarius) is commonly attacked, in the presence of the Eurasian magpie (Pica pica), shrikes stay fully passive. We tested the hypotheses that this passive response to the magpie is an alternative defense strategy. Nesting shrikes were exposed to the commonly attack...